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There's a strange beauty to the Hoo peninsula. Is this any place for an airport? | Ian Jackhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jun/08/thames-hub-boris-island-hoo-peninsula
Along with birds and their habitat, the hidden traces of Hoo peninsula's previous eras of industry will be buried by railways and runways<p>I'm not sure I fully understand the term "psychogeography". To me, it means the exploration of an unlikely place or a hidden aspect of a place, and whenever I hear it I think of Sunday walks in my childhood, when we would follow an overgrown and neglected path and sometimes scrape away the turf to discover a square stone with bolt holes drilled through it. As beetles hurried this way and that across its surface, my older brother would explain that the stone had once held an iron rail and that the path had once been a wagon-way, built in the 18th century to take coal from the Fife pits to a harbour on the Forth.As nobody else seemed to know or care about these facts, I felt I was sharing a historical secret. There were several of them close by: dark, deep ponds that had once been quarries; a ruined slipway built to take seaplanes; steel rings that had tethered barrage balloons; an abandoned railway tunnel where bats flew. Like a great many people in what was at that time an industrial country, I grew up in a landscape that was interestingly pockmarked with successive eras of exploitation, and all of it so commonplace that beyond a mention of&nbsp;its origins, Watt's engine or Crompton's spinning mule, it never found a place in the history books.</p><p>Almost all of that Fife landscape has now been buried without ceremony by motorways and housing estates, but equivalents can be found elsewhere, none of them grander and stranger than that part of Kent known as the Hoo peninsula, which lies between the Medway and the Thames and which, if Norman Foster and Boris Johnson have their way, could become the most vital stretch of land in Britain. As the location of Foster's proposed Thames Hub, the Hoo peninsula will be paved with new railways and docks and the four-runway airport with which Johnson wants to replace overcrowded Heathrow. A new Thames barrier will generate electricity from the currents and tide. Passengers who land there will take ongoing flights and containers ongoing trains.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jun/08/thames-hub-boris-island-hoo-peninsula">Continue reading...</a>Heathrow third runwayBoris JohnsonNorman FosterEnvironmentPoliticsArt and designFlightsTravelBusinessAirline industryTravel and transportLondonHeathrowAir transportRail transportTransportUK newsKent holidaysUnited Kingdom holidaysEurope holidaysBirdsFri, 08 Jun 2012 20:01:01 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jun/08/thames-hub-boris-island-hoo-peninsulaPhotograph: Foster and Partners/PAAmbitious … Foster and Partners artist's impression of the Thames Hub. Photograph: Foster and Partners/PAPhotograph: Foster and Partners/PAAmbitious … Foster and Partners artist's impression of the Thames Hub. Photograph: Foster and Partners/PAIan Jack2012-06-08T20:01:01ZChristmas breaks: From From cosy country inns to tropical escapes to über-cool party houseshttps://www.theguardian.com/travel/2008/nov/01/christmas-holidays-winter-sun
Still looking for an end-of-year break? From cosy country inns to tropical escapes to über-cool party houses, we've got every yuletide base covered<p><strong>Carrington House, Norfolk</strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2008/nov/01/christmas-holidays-winter-sun">Continue reading...</a>Winter sunWorking holidaysChristmas and New Year holidaysShort breaksWeekend breaksSelf-cateringHotelsUnited Kingdom holidaysScotland holidaysKent holidaysDevon holidaysYorkshire holidaysSuffolk holidaysGrenada holidaysCuba holidaysEgypt holidaysIndia holidaysThailand holidaysKenya holidaysSri Lanka holidaysCosta Rica holidaysHavana holidaysDiving holidaysCruisesWildlife holidaysFlightsFood and drinkRest and relaxationBeach holidaysSafarisEthical holidaysAdventure travelCultural tripsFamily holidaysTravelEthical and green livingSat, 01 Nov 2008 00:01:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/travel/2008/nov/01/christmas-holidays-winter-sunPhotograph: Macduff Everton/CorbisWinter sun ... cruise Kerala's peaceful rivers and canals. Photograph: Macduff Everton/CorbisPhotograph: Macduff Everton/CorbisWinter sun ... cruise Kerala's peaceful rivers and canals. Photograph: Macduff Everton/CorbisGemma Bowes, Les Dunn and Abigail Flanagan2008-11-01T00:01:00Z